Keys to Understanding Smart Cities

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An article of urbanNext associates member: IE School of Architecture and Design -- https://urbannext.net/iearchdesign/

Previously published in IE Reinventing Higher Education -- https://www.ie.edu/

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Cities are the ecosystem, the meeting point for two of the new realities that will define human development in the coming years: on one hand, the intense process of urbanization of the world’s population, and on the other, the spread of information and communications technology (ICT) that will be available to people at every level of society.